Off With the Emblem ...or... Tank Logo Removal
Many of you have already done this... I didn't see a reason for this until 1st of July 2000... When a car almost ran himself off the road trying to see what was written on my tank!!!
Ok, here's the whole story: I was sitting at a traffic light, which
had just turned green, when a guy in a red car pulled up in the
left lane... He looked like he was trying to look at the bike (no
surprise there :-). Then the lights changed and I pulled away - I
was rolling at an average speed, in no hurry, but ... Then the
guy pulls up beside the bike again, in the left lane (fast lane),
this time while we are moving down the road!!! ... He slows down
again, to try and look at it again. Persistant bugger! At this
point I thought I might know the guy and slowed to see if he was
fishing for a wave... but he wasn't looking at me, he was trying
to see what was written on the tank!
Now... I can't even see what's written on it even stood near the
bike - I knew there was no chance for him to read it from
a moving vehicle... Plus, he was putting all our lives
in danger with this activity... (he wasn't looking straight ahead
much of the time!)
The lights here are set up so that when you get to the next ones,
they are already green... and he was continually keeping apace
with the bike... So, as a favour to the traffic behind him,
I picked up some speed... I thought he'd drop it as he saw the
bike pull away... but he picked up speed too. This made the whole
situation even more dangerous! We were now travelling at a higher
speed and he wasn't paying attention to where he was going!
Finally -of course, something had to happen, right?- In a curve
his car mounted the curb with a loud, unnerving, scraping -CRUNCH-
but he soon regained control, (thank God!) I took the next exit
away from him... He couldn't follow, as he was in the left lane!
Phew! What a nut!
Today (2nd July 2000) I am removing the emblem off the
tank...
Please Note: I tried to document the whole process with pictures every so often for the record. It was made harder with the blood leaking from my nose and forehead! - Give the pictures time to load, they are full size. This means when they are all downloaded to your hard drive viewing them is instant.
*sigh* All in all... I am
very pleased with how smooth and cool the emblemless bike
looks. It adds to the mystery of the bike. One will get a
lot more "what bike is it?", that's for sure...
So it'll be like a conversation piece. I was told
recently that BMW and Benz don't have any signs on their
more expensive models... That's so they are not stolen. It's true, I didn't do it just because of the ideot in the car which went off the road... I had been toying with the idea for a while... The car thing was just the shove I needed to go to it. I am very pleased with the new effect and look. I have no regrets... I will hold onto the emblems... They look cool... and will always be part of the bike... Your bloody bro, So... which face do you like better? -
No... Don't answer that!
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